Just Americans

Opinion - Reader Views

February 26, 2002

How interesting to learn that Vonetta Flowers was the first African-American to win a Winter Olympics gold medal. Also, that our own Derek Parra was the first Hispanic-American to win winter gold. Marvelous achievements, both!

But now we are advised Bode Miller was the first American male to win a medal in any Alpine discipline since 1994. I do not even know whether Miller is African-American, Hispanic American, Sino-American, Euro-American, or American-American (like Jim Thorpe).

I propose we help the news media save a lot of print and all become just Americans.